视野

songseeker

 

问题：什么时候鸟儿比山还要大？答案：当鸟儿比山更靠近我们的时候。

事实上，鸟并没有比山还大，只是当那毛绒绒的鸟栖息在我的窗棂上，而山只是远距离外的一角时，它看起来好像就是这样。

有时候，当我们面临困境时，我们也会不知不觉地以这种眼光来看待上帝。近在咫尺的问题似乎很大，像一只有着尖尖的鸟喙大黑鸟，正贪婪地盯着小动物，只待小动物的疲倦渐转为无助，就一口把它吞下去。在这种时候，上帝似乎和在远方的山一样，在我们的视野中是如此的小和遥不可及。

先知以赛亚问了一些问题，来改变我们的视野。「谁曾用手心量诸水，用手虎口量苍天？用升斗盛大地的尘土，用秤称山岭，用天平平冈陵呢？」（40章12节）「疲乏的，他赐能力；软弱的，他加力量。」（29节）

就像一只鸟从来不会大过一座山，没有任何一个问题会大过上帝。问题是在于我们能否改变自己视野。JAL

每日遭遇的问题，
看似多过所能负；
直至转眼向耶稣，
知祂关心与看顾。Sper

 

上帝是如此伟大，无困难可与祂匹敌。

 

October 29, 2008

 

Perspective

 

He . . . sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. —Isaiah 40:22

Question: When is a bird bigger than a mountain? Answer: When the bird is closer than the mountain.

In reality, the bird is not bigger than the mountain, but it sure looks that way when the feathery fellow is perched on my window ledge and the mountain is far away in the distance.

Sometimes we perceive God this way in relationship to our problems. The troubles facing us seem huge because they are so close—like a big black bird with beady eyes and a sharp beak waiting for a smaller animal’s weariness to turn into helplessness so it can devour it. At such times, God seems as far away as a distant mountain, and we perceive Him as being small and unreachable.

The prophet Isaiah changes our perspective by asking these rhetorical questions: “Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, measured heaven with a span and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?” (40:12). The Lord “gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength” (v.29).

Just as a bird is never bigger than a mountain, no problem is ever bigger than God. It’s all a matter of changing our perspective.  — Julie Ackerman Link

The problems that we face each day
Can seem too much to bear
Until we turn our eyes to Christ
And trust His tender care. —Sper

We worship a God who is greater than our greatest problem.

晨星

谢谢分享！实在如此！

如同以色列人近距离看迦南人一样：那地是吞吃居民之地，都是伟人，我们如同蚱蜢……

而迦勒说：他们是我们的食物，不要怕他们！

眼睛何时离开了上帝，我们何时就如同蚱蜢一样，不堪一击！